Durga Charan Nag (Bengali: দুর্গাচরণ নাগ) better known as Nag Mahasaya (Maha Asayah in Sanskrit or "of great possession"), was born in 1846 and died in 1899 in the village of Deobhog (Narayanganj district) in East Bengal, now Bangladesh. He was one of the householder disciples of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa. Sri Ramakrishna called him "a blazing fire" when he first saw him. According to the other disciples of Sri Ramakrishna, most notable among them being Swami Vivekananda, he was a shining example of renunciation and love for God. He shunned material wealth and regarded every human being as God on earth. He lived on a meager income, but spent most of it on serving the poor, his guests, and monks and ascetics.